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Bruce Eckel

Posted by Ivan Villanueva on January 22, 2001 at 7:34 AM

Yes. It is a good idea. The famous Java programmer teacher Bruce Eckel (www.bruceeckel.com) writes in his book "Thinking in Java": "... your references ..., it's a good idea to set them to null to give the garbage collector permission to clean them up." (Chapter 8).

• Garbage collection again Kumar January 22, 2001 at 11:29 PM (3)
  • Just another thought Kishori Sharan January 23, 2001 at 11:10 AM (0)
  • More information Ivan Villanueva January 23, 2001 at 10:26 AM (1)
    • Thanks for your inputs Kumar January 25, 2001 at 12:05 AM (0)